TDD Contracts in the North West

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 110 60
Rank change year-on-year +27 -50 -25
Contract jobs citing TDD 37 27 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.88% 0.98% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.14% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 96
10th Percentile £400 £463 £412
25th Percentile £408 £500 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £625
90th Percentile £573 £664 £669
England median daily rate £534 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -5.58% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

TDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in the North West.

Daily rate trend for TDD in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +19 27 £530 -3.64% 106
Cheshire +3 5 £397 -16.53% 12
Lancashire - 3 £550 - 35
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) Serverless
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (13.51%) Azure
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.41%) Slack
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.70%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.70%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (35.14%) Relational Database
3 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.41%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.70%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (40.54%) JUnit
2 11 (29.73%) Gradle
2 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 11 (29.73%) Mockito
3 10 (27.03%) Liquibase
4 7 (18.92%) Jasmine
5 6 (16.22%) Git
6 5 (13.51%) GitLab
6 5 (13.51%) Mocha
7 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (8.11%) Grunt
7 3 (8.11%) gulp
7 3 (8.11%) JIRA
7 3 (8.11%) Subversion
8 1 (2.70%) Maven
8 1 (2.70%) Postman
8 1 (2.70%) Selenium
8 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.70%) XCUITest
General
1 16 (43.24%) Public Sector
2 12 (32.43%) Finance
3 10 (27.03%) Electronics
3 10 (27.03%) Manufacturing
3 10 (27.03%) Marketing
3 10 (27.03%) Telecoms
4 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Senior
5 6 (16.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (16.22%) Java Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) React Developer
6 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Lead
7 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.41%) .NET Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Android Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) iOS Developer
8 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (48.65%) Spring Boot
2 15 (40.54%) Spring
3 14 (37.84%) Kafka
4 12 (32.43%) OpenAPI
4 12 (32.43%) React
4 12 (32.43%) Swagger
5 7 (18.92%) Node.js
5 7 (18.92%) RESTful
6 5 (13.51%) .NET
6 5 (13.51%) CSS
6 5 (13.51%) HTML
6 5 (13.51%) Sass
7 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.81%) HTML5
7 4 (10.81%) jQuery
7 4 (10.81%) Mustache
8 3 (8.11%) UIKit
9 2 (5.41%) iOS SDK
9 2 (5.41%) OpenCV
9 2 (5.41%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
2 3 (8.11%) Mac OS X
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) Android
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Windows
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Agile
1 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
2 23 (62.16%) Microservices
3 18 (48.65%) Software Engineering
4 17 (45.95%) Containerisation
5 14 (37.84%) DevOps
6 10 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (27.03%) Digital Marketing
6 10 (27.03%) Migration
6 10 (27.03%) Programme Management
7 9 (24.32%) BDD
8 8 (21.62%) Clean Code
8 8 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
9 7 (18.92%) Event-Driven
9 7 (18.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (16.22%) Front End Development
10 6 (16.22%) Scrum
10 6 (16.22%) User Experience
11 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) Java
2 16 (43.24%) SQL
3 10 (27.03%) TypeScript
4 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.11%) Bash
5 3 (8.11%) Kotlin
5 3 (8.11%) Swift
6 2 (5.41%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) Python
7 1 (2.70%) Ruby
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Accessibility
2 5 (13.51%) WCAG
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) SAP
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Confluent
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) New Relic